On Wed, Sep 14 2016, Zacharias Voulgaris wrote: > Please note that for some reason the Packt publishing house, which has had > the monopoly on Julia books up until now, decided to follow suit, which is > why it is releasing a book with the same title next month (clearly, > imagination is not their strongest suit!). So, please make sure that you > don’t confuse the two books. My goal is not to make a quick buck through > this book (which is why I’m not publishing it via Packt); instead, I aim to > make Julia more well-known to the data science world while at the same time > make data science more accessible to all Julia users.
On the one hand I am happy to hear that so many books are coming out about Julia. On the other hand, given that Julia is under active development with major changes in the language happening all the time, I am wondering whether pre-0.5 is the right time in the life cycle of the language and the package ecosystem for these "walkthrough" style books. I expect that code would become obsolete very quickly --- it can, of course, be modified to run with only minor changes, but perhaps the target audience of these books would be confused by this. Again, please understand that I am not disparaging your book, or the one coming out from Packt, just expressing a general opinion. Best, Tamas
